K-type star · orange
12 Tau
12 Tau is an orange in the constellation Taurus 372 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,915 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 372 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1115 · HD 22796 · HIP 17103
4,915 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
68.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6III:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
372 years
at light speed from Earth
0.85×
as hot as the Sun
68.23×
the Sun's light output
0.27
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.